[Milsurplus] Battery Glue

[Bruce Gentry]

Older packs used hide glue, it is applied hot and cools and seals 
quickly. Fortunately, if it is chilled, it shatters. In rebuilding  
battery packs for Zenith TransOceanic radios, I chilled them in the 
refrigerator overnight, then used a dull table knife to open the flaps 
at the ends of the packs, using a rocking motion rather than a sawing 
one.  So far,  I have had good results. For PRC-10 or PRC-25 batteries, 
careful use of the dull steak knife is effective, but the glue used 
doesn't shatter and you have to proceed slowly with a careful sawing motion.

     Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY




On 8/8/13 9:11 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> Until they were discontinued in the last decade or so, "dry" batteries
> were a common source of a lot of voltages for portable gear.
>
> Generally, these were of two types: Stacks of pancake like cells of zinc,
> electrolyte, and carbon, or assemblies of AA or somilar cylindrical cells.
>
> Either type were loaded into cardboard boxes, sometimes waxed, with a
> cheap connector (socket) or flying leads of Fahnstock Clips or screw
> terminals. Sometimes they were potted in tar.
>
> The military used such a battery, the BA-2, composed of 15 ea AA cells. It
> was used in the BC-221 and TG-5, among other places.
>
> Anyway, I have some of these and would like to open the boxes up and fit 5
> AA holders of 3 batteries into each.
>
> Question: Does anyone know what kind of glue was used to assemble the
> boxes? I would like to be able to take the boxes apart without damage.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -John
>
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